Bristol’s bus company announces an end to its colour bar

Independent African states established the OAU in Addis Ababa. Its charter promoted solidarity, sovereignty and the eradication of colonialism in Africa. The organization created a continental...

Malone and Hood registered after Governor George Wallace’s attempt to block their entry. Their determination, litigation and federal intervention challenged state enforcement of university...

NAACP organizer Medgar Evers was murdered outside his home in Jackson after returning from movement work. He had campaigned against segregation and barriers to Black political participation. His...

Yolngu petitioners challenged decisions allowing bauxite mining on their land without adequate consultation. The first bark petition was tabled in the House of Representatives, with another...

A mass demonstration in Washington demanded civil rights protections, employment and economic justice. Movement and labour organizations brought their constituencies together for the March on...

A bomb at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church killed Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley. The church had served as a gathering place for civil rights organizing....

The General Assembly adopted the Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. It articulated international opposition to racial exclusion and superiority. This was a...

Kenya achieved independence after a prolonged anticolonial struggle and negotiations. Jomo Kenyatta headed the new government. Sovereignty ended British colonial government, while the distribution...

Ratification prohibited poll taxes as a condition for voting in federal elections. Such payments had helped exclude Black citizens and poor voters from political participation. The amendment addressed...

Students and families withheld attendance in a citywide protest against school segregation and unequal educational conditions. Black and Puerto Rican organizing brought racial inequality in a northern...